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jonthezman, upgrade

The upgrade might work, and again it might not.

Eye assume you installed the Windows2000Pro using the NT format of the hard drive. If you used Fat32 the upgrade will not work at all.

The Windows2000Pro is a very stable system, it has much to recommend it. The WindowsXP is a Media type system, and it still has several gliches in it. Mostly to do with the Media programs.

All in all, Eye would recommend that you wait until the next version of WindowsXP comes out.

You have your recovery disk from Dell, Eye would recommend that you do a "total" recovery from them. This will restore your original OS without the upgrades you installed.

You will lose all files you have stored on the PC and you will lose all passwords to the various sites you go to. Both the cookie type and the type in password type.

Then install, in order, SP2, Virtual Machine, and Java. This will get you into the chat sites.

Do not install the upgrade for Internet Explorer, use the version that comes with your OS, and you should have no problems.